paramount
Meanings
Plural: paramounts
Adjective Satellite
- having superior power and influence
Adj
- Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
- Of the highest importance.
- Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.
Noun
- A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
- A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*h₂éd
From Anglo-Norman paramont, paramount (“paramount, pre-eminent; above”), from Old French par, per (“by”) + amont, amunt (“upward”). Par is derived from Latin per (“by means of, through”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth, fare”); amont and amunt are from Latin ad montem (“to the mountain; upward”), from ad (“up to”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + montem (the accusative singular of mōns (“mount, mountain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, tower”)).
Synonyms
big, central, consequential, critical, crowning, crucial, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, foremost, greater, heavy, high on the totem pole, higher, historic, imperative, innegligible, key, life-or-death, major, meaningful, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, outstanding, overriding, paramount, pertinent, predominant, predominate, preeminent, preponderant, preponderating, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, superior, supreme, unignorable, utmost, valuable, vaulting, vital, weighty
Antonyms
consequential, important, noteworthy, paravail, significant, weighty
Scrabble Score: 13
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